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Marrakech to honour Sean Penn, David Cronenberg, Naima Elmcherqui
Marrakech Worldwide Movie Competition will current honorary tributes to Sean Penn, David Cronenberg and late Moroccan actress Naima Elmcherqui at its 21st version this...
‘Meat’: Thessaloniki Review
Dir: Dimitris Nakos. Greece. 2024. 104mins
Poisonous households could also be a story as previous as time, however author/director Dimitris Nakos spices his debut with...
‘Don’t Cry, Butterfly’: Venice Review
Dir/scr: Duong Dieu Linh. Vietnam/Singapore/Indonesia/Philippines. 2024. 97mins.
Hardworking Hanoi-based marriage ceremony planner Tam (Le Tu Oanh) learns of her husband Thanh’s (Le Vu Lengthy) infidelity...
Egyptian magical realism drama, Libyan doc win top prizes at CineGouna industry platform
Egyptian filmmaker Jad Chahine’s magical realism drama The Masters Of Magic And Magnificence and Libyan-US filmmaker Jihan’s characteristic documentary My Father And Qaddafi have...
‘2073’: Venice Review
Dir: Asif Kapadia. UK. 2024. 82mins
Get up, world – you might be sleepwalking into the abyss. That’s the impassioned message behind Asif Kapadia’s newest characteristic,...
‘Ghost Trail’ leads winners at Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival
French filmmaker Jonathan Millet’s thriller Ghost Path gained El Gouna Movie Competition’s $50,000 Golden Star award for greatest narrative movie. The pageant ran October...
‘Familiar Touch’: Venice Review
Dir/scr: Sarah Friedland. US. 2024. 91mins
Ruth Goldman (Kathleen Chalfant) has been a spouse and mom, knowledgeable cook dinner and the creator of a number...
‘Harvest’: Venice Review
Dir: Athina Rachel Tsangari. UK/Germany/Greece/France/US. 2024. 133mins
The characters in Athina Rachel Tsangari’s visceral, earthy adaptation of Jim Crace’s Seventeenth-century set novel reside nearer than...
‘Queer’: Venice Review
Dir. Luca Guadagnino. Italy. 2024. 135mins
When ’Queer’ was written – and even when it was printed, 35 years later, nonetheless unfinished – that time...
‘Happyend’: Venice Review
Dir. Neo Sora. Japan/USA 2024. 113mins
Oddly languid for a movie about youth unrest, Happyend is a low-key Japanese drama about friendship, revolt and standing as much as the...